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Mudface on 10 September 2008

I'm sure everyone's heard about the anti-DRM protest at Amazon.com concerning Spore. At present over 2000 people have rated the game, 95% or so of them giving it a single star.

What you might not know is that some sites are actively censoring user contributions and reviews. Presumably this is due to pressure on them from EA. I thought it might be useful to compile a list of such sites, so that their reviews system can be treated with a pinch of salt in future. So far these sites are known to have pulled or censored Spore reviews-

Metacritic aren't showing Spore user reviews- there's a question in the forums here.

Amazon UK have deleted hundreds of reviews on several occasions.

Finally, Gamespot (surprise, surprise) have also been fingered in deleting or censoring user reviews that mentioned DRM.

Anybody noticed any other sites that taken the EA dime?

 



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Mudface on 10 September 2008

Looks like I've done Metacritic a major disservice. Less than ten minutes after sending in this email-

Could I ask why Spore appears to be the only game not currently showing user review comments? There have been over 450 reviews so far and none are shown. There's a huge amount of cynicism going round the gaming community concerning EA 'leaning' on sites to suppress poor reviews. I hope Metacritic hasn't succumbed to that pressure as I've found it be a valuable resource in the past.


I received this-

ha! yeah, the folks at EA love me. No, we have to edit those manually - to prevent foul language, etc. We'll get those up.....


Good for them.



Godot on 11 September 2008
Mudface said:

Looks like I've done Metacritic a major disservice. Less than ten minutes after sending in this email-

Could I ask why Spore appears to be the only game not currently showing user review comments? There have been over 450 reviews so far and none are shown. There's a huge amount of cynicism going round the gaming community concerning EA 'leaning' on sites to suppress poor reviews. I hope Metacritic hasn't succumbed to that pressure as I've found it be a valuable resource in the past.


I received this-

ha! yeah, the folks at EA love me. No, we have to edit those manually - to prevent foul language, etc. We'll get those up.....


Good for them.

They posted it but I wouldn't be surprised if they censor some of them.

 



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